Tales from the Techside

Quick micropost here. I am curious to know if anyone out there is doing anything with Faceforce?
Picture a utility to integrate your social network (facebook) with your Customer Relationship Management. Like LinkedIn, it simply piggybacks off an existing data source, to create your ‘network.’ Instead of using email addresses as LinkedIn does, […]

As someone who regularly meets with members and vendors outside the office I find it difficult to find a good place to meet and generally end up traveling further than the other person because I am not as familiar with the area as they are.
To use Mezzoman simply enter two addresses and a destination point […]

I have made my rounds at the conferences advocating MLS agnostic technology. I still do. I firmly believe that the future will see more and more tools, widgets and technologies developed that interface with MLS(s) but are not dependent on or tied to a particular MLS… they are MLS Agnostic. The […]

Sometimes I like to check out new real estate business models and occasionally when one catches my eye I will share it here. This is not meant to be an endorsement of a service just that I found the concept interesting and I believe it may have a broader appeal.
Pedal To Properties has come up […]

Imaging IS king. There are plenty of audiophiles out there who will argue with me, and certainly humans have a remarkable reaction to coordinated sounds, and an even stronger reaction to smells (nothing can evoke powerful memories of a place and time quite like an odor).
At the end of the day, however, we are […]

Yahoo’s new MapMixer tools enables you to combine two different maps together and share the result as a grouped map.
Below you can see a map of San Francisco overlayed with a map of the Golden Gate National Park.

With MapMixer, you could easily combine property maps, Thomas brother maps, housing statistics for an area or a […]

A recent study of users using eye heat-tracking technology shows that people are not paying the same attention to banner ads that they used to. The ads that were displayed in the study did not receive a glance from viewers of web-pages. Interestingly enough the same study showed that people do not look at non-ad […]

Last week I posted about using online tools to distribute Powerpoint presentations from your site. Lets say however that you wanted to enhance your video with an accompanying presentation.
Then the tool for the job is Vcasmo. With Vcasmo you can combine video with PowerPoint, PDF, or simply a collection images. The interface is simple […]

Today it seems that the focus is on using video to impress current clients and entice perspective clients to your site. Video is without a doubt one of the best and richest methods of sharing content on your site.
Sometimes though powerpoint is much more suited to the task. Powerpoint provides an easy way for you […]

One of the great things about my job is all the incredible conversations I get to have with people involved at every level of the real estate industry, from Brokers and agents, to title reps and affiliates, vendors and 3rd parties I get to interface with them all and it is great!
An almost constant theme […]